tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post8104404498751876412..comments2023-10-03T12:20:53.726-04:00Comments on ¡Cecilieaux!: Is it the long winter? Is it me? Why can't people exchange more than chit-chat and pictures?Cecilio Moraleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05283375962527765787noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-62653229123591445662014-03-10T12:24:59.594-04:002014-03-10T12:24:59.594-04:00Thank you all. prsonal responses in order of posti...Thank you all. prsonal responses in order of posting ...<br /><br />@Anne: I "divorce" people who are intransigent idiots.<br /><br />@Roberta: T&R (Theology & Religion, yahoogroups) was an interesting group when the original founder had it but sadly has extremely little to offer to anyone who doesn't fit the two equally rigid camps.<br /><br />@Helen: Thank you, got your links on my reader (The Old Reader http://theoldreader.com/, recommended).<br /><br />@Silvia: if, if, if ,if, say the green bells of Cardiff.<br /><br />@Sharon: FB is my point of departure for this post; thanks for understanding ... hope you come visit soon.Cecilio Moraleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283375962527765787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-26878601081780799522014-03-09T17:18:33.042-04:002014-03-09T17:18:33.042-04:00I was just commenting to a friend of mine the othe...I was just commenting to a friend of mine the other day how facebook is just not me. I used to write long letters and longer emails expressing my ideas and thoughts and exchanging them with others. Facebook seems to be for pictures, short comments, and links to other pictures and short comments and jokes. That's its nature. So I have still have to use e-mail, or create a blog or an alternative to facebook. I'm on facebook mostly to see what my nieces and nephews and my son are up to. But I get stung by this scorpion every time. SharonSharonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-63357271193437691992014-03-07T14:21:43.638-05:002014-03-07T14:21:43.638-05:00Well... life is usually not boring for me, because...Well... life is usually not boring for me, because I make it so. Of course, I have been traveling and for each travel, I study the towns their history, ancestry, architecture, etc.<br />It is true that the idle chatter gets to me, more times than not, so I'm doing that, less and less.<br />What I object to "serious" talk is being affronted to where I'm feeling with no way out, I'm not good at this, so I avoid it. So much to write on here, but I must go now.....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13732091346682029581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-24408174781430673272014-03-07T14:02:36.516-05:002014-03-07T14:02:36.516-05:00I read Marginal Revolution (www.marginalrevolution...I read Marginal Revolution (www.marginalrevolution.com), 3 Quarks Daily (http://www.3quarksdaily.com), languagehat (www.languagehat.com), Language Log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/), occasionally Crooked Timber (www.crookedtimber.org), Andrew Gelman's blog on Statistical Modeling etc. (www.andrewgelman.com), the LRB, NYRB and New Yorker blogs, sometimes the Paris Review blog, and Woods Lot (http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/wood_s_lot.html) - I would say all offer something like what you have in mind, and some accept comments so readers can participate in the discussion.Helen DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-14889989522867130202014-03-07T13:52:15.341-05:002014-03-07T13:52:15.341-05:00C -- I like what you have said here and I agree wi...C -- I like what you have said here and I agree with you. I also agree with what Anne has opined. You are both right on! I do think that occasionally my T&R list comes quite close to what you are looking for. No, it is not there all the time but I do think sometimes it is.<br /><br />I too like meaty conversations but I feel that this desert I live in (Phoenix) is an intellectual wasteland. At least going out beyond the city one can find life and stimulation around the nearest cactus or in the nests and lairs of the nearest predators.<br /><br />Behind this apartment complex is a rather large field wherein lives a pack of coyotes. They wander through the complex sometimes. No one wants to discuss this -- except on the most superficial level. I would love to discuss these magnificent animals with someone. I would also like to explain to someone how to differentiate between coyote poop and the poop from some resident's dog. Oh, coyote poop is about the size and shape of a cigar and is tapered at one end. The color depends on what the animal has been eating but it is commonly quite dark.<br /><br />Someone in the complex, a retired medical attorney, stopped by the other day and said she had noticed my license plate. (Yeah, I've got snob plates.) She said she is grasping for some decent intellectual conversation and she suggested we go to lunch next week.<br /><br />Maybe there is hope!!! Let's keep the ball rolling!!!Meehansbarquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12134113639382945512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-59466609935424868532014-03-07T12:23:00.021-05:002014-03-07T12:23:00.021-05:00Life is a bit boring right now, true. Lately I...Life is a bit boring right now, true. Lately I've been ruminating on the fact that I don't thrill easily (or ev-ver!) so life is humdrum anyway. <br /><br />I do like meaty conversations but every single solitary member of my family shuns that in me on FB, beyond 1 or 2 that share the same bandwagon of yayrahrah. I'm not on the same wavelength politically or religiously or socially, with any friend. <br /><br />What else is left?<br /><br />Chitchat.<br /><br />Chit-chat keeps an open line to friendships/relationships which beyond anything keeps interest in the well-being of others. I do love my friends (& relatives even though we can be extremely different), so for me, this is the only way to show it. <br /><br />Anne Malcolmnoreply@blogger.com